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Disordered Minds - Minette Walters |
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06/05/08 (25 review reads) |
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Advantages: Great novel
Disadvantages: Nothing really, a little hard to read maybe
Disordered Minds is the 10th novel from the award winning mystery/crime writer.
The Plot
With the war in Iraq a foremost thought on many minds, Dr Jonathan Hughes is writing a book on injustice, and he comes across the case of the 20-year-old retarded Howard Stamp, convicted of killing his grandmother in 1970. A few years after his conviction and following bullying in prison, Stamp hung himself, and Hughes has formed an obsession with the case more than 30o years later. He is joined by George Gardener, a 60 year old who is also looking over the case, and together, they find a link between the death of Howard's grandmother and the disappearance of a 13 year old girl, and slowly but surely, information starts coming to light putting Howard's guilty in doubt.
My Opinion
Fox Evil, Minette Walters' previous novel, was a marvellous display of writing and plot twists. In Disordered Minds, the author returns to the plot style of The Shape of Snakes, with a decades old case being revisited, and she combines this with the skill continued over from Fox Evil.
Walters' two leads are extremely well characterised, and their combination unlikely but effective. The development of the book is agradual, as is the pace of the events in it, and the two go well in sequence. I was impressed by Walters on following Fox Evil with a solid novel. Disordered Minds does not top it, but it is a very well written novel, with an incredibly well worked out plot and very good characterisation to go with it.
Conclusion
Walters explores the past with success.
I rate this book at 4 stars out of 5.
The book is available from amazon.co.uk for £5.59.
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Thanks for reading.
Summary: Disordered Minds - Minette Walters' 10th novel
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